Mommy Saves Money: Laundry crazy....

Alright, I've gone kind of money saving crazy now that I know how much I LOVE my home made laundry detergent. I used it on all my laundry today (4 loads. Mother fuck. I just did laundry) I don't know how we go through so much laundry. But we do.

So a quick recap on the homemade laundry detergent (which can be found here) I've been using it all day, and my clothes are coming out, fluffier, cleaner, and softer.


But then I was thinking, if I really want to stop buying laundry detergent, and things that keep our clothes clean, especially with a messy 2 year old and if I remember correctly, babies are really good at crapping up their back. I remember soaking a LOT of shit covered baby clothes. So instead of spending 8$ on a small tub of baby oxi wash and 4$ on Zout stain treater.

So today I set out to make oxi clean and stain treater! With just 3 or 4 ingredients each. Instead of paying for pretty much water with some cleaning agents in it.

Home Made Zout:

Ingredients: 

2/3 cup Dawn

2/3 cup Amonia 

6 table spoon Baking soda

2 cup water

Wisk it all together, and pour it into an old zout bottle or into another kind of spray bottle. 

All done! seriously 5 minutes to make and cost pennies

Home made Oxiclean

Ingredients:

2 cup water

1 cup Baking Soda

1 cup Hydrogen Peroxide

All done. Maybe another 5 minutes to make. Also pennies.  I read that this is better for soaking than it is for putting right in the wash. But tonight I'm going to gather all of Mr.Cs and CB's gross brown bottom socks and see if this helps them at all. Nothing has worked so far, I haven't tried bleach yet. I hate to make CB wear stiff socks.